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The period of social change and legal rulings in the 1960s that prompted reactions from white evangelicals, including school desegregation and related cultural fights.
Charlie Kirk publicly stated that “we made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s,” a line reported from his December 2023 AmericaFest remarks and repeated by him in other for...
The Insurrection Act has been used in the United States on roughly 30 separate occasions, but sources differ on how many presidents have formally invoked it: several reputable references count 15 pres...
Political leaders’ accusations that protests are driven by “paid agitators” have a long rhetorical history and often function as a delegitimizing trope, but empirical investigations have produced a mi...
During Reconstruction the Insurrection Act was principally wielded by President Ulysses S. Grant to suppress organized white supremacist violence—most prominently the Ku Klux Klan—after Congress expan...
The Insurrection Act has been invoked in response to 30 distinct crises over the past two centuries, and those invocations were issued by a limited number of presidents (with one Army general acting o...
The Insurrection Act has been invoked roughly 30 times over more than two centuries, by somewhere between 15 and 17 different presidents depending on how historians count partial or contested uses, an...
The political alliance between the (largely white evangelical Protestants and allied conservative Catholics) and the emerged over decades but coalesced in the 1970s and became a durable force by the 1...
Places of worship have been treated in two contrasting ways during protests tied to federal law-enforcement actions: as shields and sanctuaries that protestors sometimes occupy or invoke for moral aut...
Allegations of “paid agitators” stretch from early 20th‑century warnings about organized minorities through the Civil Rights era’s “outside agitator” trope to contemporary claims about hired actors an...
The Insurrection Act, a federal statute first enacted in 1807, has been invoked roughly 30 times across U.S. history to authorize deployment of federal troops or federalization of state militias to su...
Deliberately trying to "pit" Nazis against the Ku Klux Klan is theoretically possible because the groups share overlapping but distinct constituencies and histories of both cooperation and conflict, y...